The Feast of San Gennaro, Chinatown, and the Brooklyn Bridge in one day.

One Saturday, a friend of mine and I decided to take a trip to Little Italy and Chinatown. What we found as we got off the subway and made our way to Canal street were sidewalks full of people looking for bargains of every type. Chinatown encompassed Canal street and every where you turned, all you saw was Chinese on the side of the buildings and the aroma of Chinese food everrywhere.
Walking through Chinatown on our way to Mulberry St. we found vendors selling every knockoff designer clothing and accessory you could think of. They say that you could find the real stuff in Chinatown down the little alleys of stores and in the basement. It looked kind of shady to me looking beyond the walls that everyone sees. In Chinatown you could find everything, fresh seafood (you name it, they had it), fruits and vegetables to whole peking ducks hanging in the windows. In some stores, live crabs would be crawling out of their buckets and onto the street. Jason almost stepped on one!

When we made it Mulberry Street, we found the Feast of San Gennaro festival going on.
The Feast of San Gennaro, little Italy at its capacity, is a week long festival where the heart of little Italy is closed to traffic and you get to experience the rich culture and food of little Italy. San Gennaro from what I gathered is the patron saint of Italy, at least of Little Italy, and an entire week of festivities go on here. We were able to watch the parade of San Gennaro commence through the streets. People would come up to the float and give money to be place on the stole of San Gennaro statue.
It was more like a carnival with games lining the side streets and booths full of cannolis and italian sausage ran rampant. The atmosphere was great and the smell of food made your mouth water for everything that was being sold. After we had our share of closterphobia and italian food we walked down to the WTC site and then made our way to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Bridge was a cool structure in that you can walk across it while cars are crossing it at the same time. The views from the bridge are amazing. The walking path is made up of wooden planks giving you a nostalgic feeling as you walked on them.
So if you are ever in the city in the middle of September, those are some cool places to go and see and do it all in under three hours of you don't plan on shopping in Chinatown!!